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Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 22:05:14 -0700
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To: Andy Coates <andy@friends-tv.net>
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Subject: Re: Resource Limiting
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Andy Coates wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've been through the mailing list archives about this, and found the
> /etc/login.conf file which allows resource limiting.
> 
> I decided to give this a go and set maxproc=4:, but I managed to run 5
> processes without any complaints (as non root). Is there something I'm
> supposed to enable before it uses the login.conf?

	Did you follow the instructions at the top of the file and run cap_mkdb
/etc/login.conf? Then did your "normal user" log out completely, and then
log back in?


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